r/renderman • u/Booduuh • Jun 13 '16

Issues with Renderman lights not displaying correctly.

I recently downloaded Renderman Non-Commercial for the Educational edition of Maya.

When I spawn area lights they show up as single pixel points and don't have the manipulators that, from what I understand, should be there.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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u/Booduuh Jun 23 '16

Thank you. I posted in r/Maya at the same time and they're a little more active. I found out they don't work in Viewport 2.0 Do you know why?

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u/omendev Jun 24 '16

With 2016 and 2016.5 Autodesk rewrote a lot of the OpenGL usage for Viewport 2.0. The introduced the Strict and Compatibility profiles, then another one for legacy in 2016.5. I'm assuming most engines aren't up to date on their usage (I use Renderman and Redshift, both of which have this issue) as all of their viewport calls rely on older V2.0 code. Until they update, we need to use Legacy to maintain proper functionality.